Strictly Dishonorable (1951 film)

Strictly Dishonorable
title card
Directed byMelvin Frank
Norman Panama
Written byMelvin Frank
Norman Panama
Based onStrictly Dishonorable
1929 play
by Preston Sturges
Produced byMelvin Frank
Norman Panama
StarringEzio Pinza
Janet Leigh
CinematographyRay June
Edited byCotton Warburton
Music byMario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Lennie Hayton
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • July 3, 1951 (1951-07-03) (US)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,182,000[1]
Box office$881,000[1]

Strictly Dishonorable is a 1951 romantic comedy film written, produced and directed by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, and starring Ezio Pinza and Janet Leigh. It is the second film to be based on Preston Sturges' 1929 hit Broadway play of the same name after a pre-Code film released by Universal Pictures in 1931 with the same title.

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.